Our Mission

Kids Against Hunger packages highly nutritious, life-saving meals for starving children and malnourished children and their families in developing countries and the United States. The goal of the organization is for its meals to provide a stable nutritional base from which recipient families can move from starvation to self-sufficiency.

Kids Against Hunger accomplishes this by mobilizing the energy and caring of American children, teens, and adults on behalf of hungry children around the world. Kids Against Hunger seeks to end the literal hunger of children receiving the meals, but also satisfies a hunger among prosperous Americans - a hunger for meaning and contribution.

Your generous contributions to Kids Against Hunger-Verde Valley, have helped feed starving and undernourished children around the world and now here in Arizona. For that, we at KAH are extremely grateful and salute each and everyone of you!

By donating to Manzanita Hunger / Kids Against Hunger Verde Valley will help feed our local hungry, by taking advantage of the Arizona tax credit the state will match you dollar for dollar. A married couple filing a joint return can reduce their Arizona State taxes by up to $400 with this contribution, an individual by up to $200.

In 2015, your donations helped us pack 332,358 meals for the hungry!! We have fed over 205,000 hungry men, women, and children here in Yavapai County.

Imagine how many more of our neighbors we can

feed next year!

Claim Manzanita Outreach - Kids Against Hunger Verde

Valley for your 2015 Tax Credit!!

More than 600 community volunteers converged on the Verde Valley Fairgrounds Saturday to help Manzanita Outreach-Verde Valley Kids Against Hunger achieve its most successful single-day food packaging event ever.

Kids Against Hunger set a goal Saturday to package 250,000 meals and when the final box was packed the total came to 280,640 meals.

In all, KAH has packed 331,586 meals in 2015. What's more, the organization has now surpassed the 1-million meal mark since its first event in April 2011 as it has now packaged 1,115,882 meals.

The organization was formed following the Haitian earthquake in 2010 to meet the needs of starving people -- especially starving children -- there.

Since then, the organization has also packaged a separate meal product for distribution in the Verde Valley and Yavapai County. Saturday's event marked a first for Kids Against Hunger International as a Latin mix rice-and-beans meal was packaged for distribution locally.

Saturday's volunteer workforce for the event included churches from all over Verde Valley, students and faculty from Mingus Union, Sedona Red Rock HS, Camp Verde HS, middle schools and charters and private schools, the Cottonwood Police Dept, Cottonwood and Verde Valley fire departments and Cottonwood City employees.

Businesses from all over Verde Valley donated packers, food, needed supplies and funds.

All donations to Manzanita Outreach are tax deductible, and the organization also has been approved for the Arizona Tax Credit.

KAH Food Package

Our revolutionary food package has been developed by some of the world's leading food scientists at Cargill, Pillsbury, General Mills and ADM. This one package provides six nutritionally-complete servings for only 25 cents per serving.